What is the most Interesting trap you have ever encountered

[Billman 0]

Hi

 

The combined hammer/spade/billhook was often sold as a Gamekeepers Friend in the Victorian Edge Tool Catalogues of most of the Sheffield makers.... Sadly I have never seen one in the 'flesh' but would be interested in any other images of these or similar tools for my archives....

 

More common was the combined billhook hammer - common being a relative term as these are also like hen's teeth, I have only seen three or four in thirty years of edge tool collecting, and just managed to buy one (at an exhorbitant price)....

 

For more info on billhooks see: www.billhooks.co.uk

 

Edited May 30, 2011 by Billman

[mackem 23,697]

Oriental fish trap,watched two kids make it

[Malt 379]

That's some piece of work there Mack.

[mackem 23,697]

Doesnt take them long to knock one up,the weaving looks intricate at first glance but they follow an oft-repeated basic pattern

[DUCKWING 302]

WELL MACKEM ,

 

REMINDS ME OF A FRIEND ON THE WEST COAST , ....... WHO WATCHED THE GAMEKEEPER DROP GATES ONTO THE FISH TRAPS FOR THE RUNNING SALMON TO SUPPLY THE " BIG HOUSE " ..........

AND WITH MEASURING TAPE , AND CAMERA MADE A DETAIL COPY OF THE GATES , HAD MANY FRESH RUN FISH FROM DROPPING HIS GATES IN ON THE WAY OUT FOR A MOOCH

 

ALL THE BEST

 

 

DUCKWING

[comanche 2,799]

Hi

 

The combined hammer/spade/billhook was often sold as a Gamekeepers Friend in the Victorian Edge Tool Catalogues of most of the Sheffield makers.... Sadly I have never seen one in the 'flesh' but would be interested in any other images of these or similar tools for my archives....

 

More common was the combined billhook hammer - common being a relative term as these are also like hen's teeth, I have only seen three or four in thirty years of edge tool collecting, and just managed to buy one (at an exhorbitant price)....

 

For more info on billhooks see: www.billhooks.co.uk

 

I saw one of these at a tool stall at a boot sale a couple of weeks ago. And ,yes it would have been an expensive buy !.

[Tomm Parr 30]

When i was a kid, my mate fell into a pit trap set in the local wood: 3 feet deep with a sharpened wooden stake in the middle, covered with branches and grass!

 

It was not a pretty sight: The spike went into the skin on his ankle and came out of the skin on his knee; naturally, an ambulance was need to resolve matters :sick:

 

Turns out there was a local nutjob who'd put 3 of them in the local wood and my mate was unlucky enough to be the one and only victim....